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Toledo is best known in sports history as the location where Jack Dempsey won the heavyweight title by a knockout back in 1919. <\/p>\n

This past week saw another knockout – this one self-inflicted by the Toledo Blade <\/strong>in its clumsy attempts to smear talk show host Brian Wilson<\/strong>. Wilson effectively toppled<\/strong><\/a> Toledo\u2019s Mayor-for-Life Carly Finkbeiner in 2009, and he has raised lots of freedom-fighting hell in local politics since he arrived on the air in Ohio in 2006.<\/p>\n

The Toledo Blade<\/strong> grossly misrepresented an outtake from Brian’s show two Fridays ago, and sought to stir up a racist controversy out of nothing. The Toledo Free Press<\/strong> has an excellent analysis<\/strong> <\/a>of the Blade’s shenanigans. <\/p>\n

P.S. Brian has a new ‘pull’ quote atop of his blog here<\/strong> <\/a>– \u201cTime is the sole arbitor between Prescience and Paranoia.\u201d Brian Wilson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toledo is best known in sports history as the location where Jack Dempsey won the heavyweight title by a knockout back in 1919. This past week saw another knockout – this one self-inflicted by the Toledo Blade in its clumsy attempts to smear talk show host Brian Wilson. Wilson effectively toppled Toledo\u2019s Mayor-for-Life Carly Finkbeiner […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nBrian Wilson's Latest Knockout in Toledo - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/15\/brian-wilsons-latest-knockout-in-toledo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Brian Wilson's Latest Knockout in Toledo - James Bovard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Toledo is best known in sports history as the location where Jack Dempsey won the heavyweight title by a knockout back in 1919. 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